Klarinet Archive - Posting 000893.txt from 2000/06

From: Karel Vahala <vahalakv@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key oil
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:07:48 -0400

I have recently asked a watchmaker friend to get me a bottle of clock oil. It was
made by a German company named "Koch", and is now apparently made of mineral
oil, not whale or porpoise. thus quite animal-friendly.

Karel.

MVinquist@-----.com wrote:

> Kalmen Opperman recommends Nye Clock Oil for keys. For the squeamish, it is
> whale oil (or, more likely these days, porpoise oil). It's _very_ light and
> works very well. The best way to apply it is with the tip of a rattail file
> (no rats were killed). There's no need to loosen the screws, since it is so
> thin it's pulled right in by capillary action. Being an animal oil, it goes
> rancid in about a year.
>
> On the other hand, when Francois Kloc sets up at the conventions, he opens
> what looks like a container of axle grease -- grease, anyway. He says that's
> what they use at the Buffet factory and that it doesn't dry out or interfere
> with key action. Of course, axle grease is a petroleum product that comes
> from dinosaurs....
>
> Ken Shaw
>
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